Soft Tissue Repair

As a Physiotherapist you often want to achieve plastic deformation of soft tissues as an outcome of your treatment?

The late stage of tissue healing is also know as the proliferation phase

A patient with vascular disease and a limited diet can expect to have some delay in tissue healing compared to a normal population.

As part of your treatment plan for the management of a soft tissue injury, you should recommend and implement PRICE guidelines for 5 days following injury

You have been treating a runner for Achilles Tendonopathy and he is now in the late phase of healing. In the last 24 hours, his pain has completely settled, and pain is not longer reproducible on examination. He wants to run in a 10k race tomorrow. This should be recommended?

Your patient is now 4 days following a grade I Adductor longus strain, when prescribing static stretches you should advise your patient to stretch into pain.